--- sourceDocument: australia Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/delta-xanadu-australia Release : - australia ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - australia Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3ax bundleId : - delta3ax --- # Combined Industrial Standards release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia # Combined Industrial Standards release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Australia Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 5 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Combined Industrial Standards Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Australia This consolidated release notes document assists ServiceNow customers in preparing for upgrading Industrial Standards from the Xanadu release family through to the Australia release. It summarizes new features, changes, deprecations, activation information, and key enhancements introduced in the Australia release. Releases from Xanadu, Yokohama, and Zurich had no updates for Industrial Standards, focusing all new capabilities and changes on the Australia release. Show full answer Show less ## New Features in Australia * **Work Set Standards:** Introduce a new work set standard type that groups Standard and Action sub-activities. These can be authored, published through approval/versioning flows, and executed as work set tasks that automatically generate industrial guided tasks and actions for shop floor execution. * **Action Sub-Activity Enhancements:** Add safety and knowledge fields such as LOTO(TO) level, line status, and linked knowledge articles that carry over to generated actions, capturing execution-critical context. * **Schedule-Based Exceptions:** Enable sub-activities to run on customized schedules, independent of the main work set schedule, supporting custom or shift-based recurrence for child task generation within task timeframes. * **Standards Hub Upgrades:** Improved browsing and comparison of standards with tile and list views, filters (state, scope, category, location, equipment), and clear differentiation between enterprise and site standards to avoid misapplication. * **Scheduling Enhancements:** Support for daily, weekly, monthly, and custom scheduling with offset configuration to align task creation with shift handovers or production calendars. Runtime tracing improves visibility into task creation, status, and exceptions. * **Skill-Based Task Management:** Define required skills or certifications within standards, ensuring only qualified operators perform safety-critical tasks. Supervisors can request waivers or alternative routing when skills are missing. ## Changes and Deprecations * **Removed Features:** The "Template schedule type" for schedule plans has been removed. Users can no longer create schedule plans from templates, and associated fields have been removed from the schedule plan form. Custom, including shift-based, schedules should be used instead. * **No Other Changes or Feature Removals:** No other features were removed or changed across the upgrade path. ## Activation and Additional Information * **Activation:** Industrial Standards is installed automatically when the Industrial Connected Workforce Mobile Experience app is installed as part of the ICW Foundational SKU. Customers can request ICW Mobile from the ServiceNow Store. * **Availability:** Industrial Standards is available through the ServiceNow Store, with release history and cumulative release notes accessible there. * **Other Considerations:** No updates were made regarding browser requirements, accessibility, localization, or highlight information for Industrial Standards in this release. ## Key Outcomes for ServiceNow Customers * Standardize complex, recurring multi-step work by leveraging the new work set standard type, enhancing operational consistency and execution clarity on the shop floor. * Capture critical safety and knowledge context directly within action sub-activities to improve compliance and execution accuracy. * Gain flexible scheduling options for sub-activities, aligning task generation with real-world production shifts and calendars. * Improve standards management with an enhanced Standards Hub, enabling faster comparison and filtering to select appropriate standards and prevent errors. * Ensure only qualified personnel perform safety-critical tasks through skill-based controls, reducing operational risks. * Simplify activation and deployment by utilizing the Industrial Connected Workforce Mobile Experience app bundle from the ServiceNow Store. Consolidated page of all release notes for Industrial Standards from Xanadu to Australia. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Industrial Standards release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Australia. Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release." ## Important information for upgrading Industrial Standards to Australia Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## New features Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Industrial Standards. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__12} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | [Safety and knowledge fields for Action sub-activities](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=work-set-sub-activity-form&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Capture execution-critical context when authoring an Action sub-activity in a work set standard. Define the LOTO(TO) level, line status, and a knowledge article on the sub-activity, and these values carry over to the generated action when the work set runs. [Schedule-based exceptions for sub-activities](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=work-set-standards&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Run a sub-activity on its own schedule instead of the work set's schedule. Select Schedule-based exception on a sub-activity and configure a custom or shift-based recurrence, so a child task is generated for the sub-activity only when it's due within the work set task's timeframe. [Work set standards](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=work-set-standards&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)Work Set standards : Author a work set standard that groups Standard and Action sub-activities, then publish it through the standard approval and versioning flow.Run a work set standard as a Work set task that automatically creates child industrial guided tasks and industrial actions for execution on the shop floor. [Standards hub](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=industrial-standards-library&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Browse and compare standards using an upgraded hub that provides tile and list views with filters for state, scope, category, functional location, and equipment model.Users can quickly compare similar standards and see linked tasks, skills, and knowledge.Access policies differentiate enterprise and site standards to help prevent misapplication. [Scheduling](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=scheduling-standards&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Generate recurring work from standards by configuring daily, weekly, monthly, and custom scheduling patterns to maintain a consistent operational cadence.A system property (for example, an offset in minutes) lets admins align task creation with shift handovers or production calendar boundaries.Runtime tracing improves visibility into created tasks, their status, and exceptions. [Skill-based task management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=skill-based-task-management&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Define required skills or certifications within standards to ensure that only qualified operators execute safety‑critical tasks. Supervisors can request waivers or alternative routing when skills are missing. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Industrial Standards features. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__22} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Australia, some Industrial Standards features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__32} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Australia, some Industrial Standards features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__42} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | [Template schedule type for schedule plans](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-events-based-on-schedules&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Removed. You can no longer create a schedule plan from a schedule template, and the Schedule type and Schedule fields are removed from the [Schedule plan form](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=scheduled-plan-form&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Use a custom schedule instead, which can also be shift-based. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Industrial Standards. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__52} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | Activation information : Industrial Standards is automatically installed when you install Industrial Connected Workforce Mobile Experience as part of the ICW Foundational SKU. You can request ICW Mobile from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Industrial Standards is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Industrial Standards we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__62} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Industrial Standards we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__72} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Industrial Standards, such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__82} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Industrial Standards we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__92} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Industrial Standards we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-industrialstandards-summary__entry__102} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | | Australia | * Standardize recurring multi-step work with the new work set standard type, which groups sub-activities and generates guided tasks and industrial actions when executed. * Create and manage operational standards faster with a new authoring experience that includes built‑in guidance, validation, and structure rules. * Find and compare standards efficiently using an enhanced Standards Hub with faster filtering and optimized layouts for any screen size. * Align task generation with shift handovers and production calendars through scheduling engine improvements that include offset configuration and richer recurrence patterns. * Skills‑based execution controls help to make sure that qualified operators are performing the designated work. * Strengthen your audit process with a structured versioning model that logically categorizes standards across their life cycle. See [Industrial Standards](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=industrial-standards-landing-page&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | [ ]